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My shins sit fairly high on the boots (secured with velcro) to avoid a big gap by the knees. I can’t avoid the gap between torso and thighs. At 6“2 and 220lbs I am at the maximum circumference for thighs and shins. I think the RS armor is great. At 6ft+ you just have to manage the gaps so it looks the way you want.

Hi, Request access please. TK 15592 https://www.501st.com/members/searchresults.php?searchfield=15592&criteria=tkid

Approved! TK 15592 Yay! Thanks for the help!

My favorite is the outtake where they all fall over each other entering the cell block. Ammo belts falling off and everything. My pictures are up in the pre approval section. 501st Garrison approval is next and then hopefully some trooping pictures soon. I agree with you that the imperfections of the armor are part of the fun.

After some experimenting I am quite happy with my current solution. The top button is on elastics and connects to underneath the shoulder bridges/shoulder elastics like the original. The bottom button (on a non elastic strap) connects to the thicker elastic strap which runs over the shoulders underneath the neck seal flaps on my back. This strap keeps the shoulder bells in place and pulls them back into place after moving the arms around. As far as putting everything on is concerned, I tried the technique mentioned above. Both arms first (holding in place with the connecting strap) and then put the main body armor on. Works great. All I have to do is to connect the upper buttons. This is a lot easier than trying to connect the arms after the body is already on.

Thank you, Glen. Great inputs!

Should be working now. "Direct Link" in Imgur is now called "BBCode (Forums)"

A couple thoughts/words about my build journey. This is my first build and I have no previous experience with building suits or props in general. I went strictly by the RS Propmaster youtube videos to put the armor together. That was a lot of fun with a few moments of frustration. I ordered the helmet separately fully assembled because I did not want to rely on my skills to put this vital piece of the armor together correctly. Due to my size I pretty much had to built every piece to its maximum size. The shims to cover the gaps on each side are just APS plastic pieces that I cut out and placed in between the front and the back plates. Ultimately, my goal is to loose 20lbs and make the armor fit without them. Right now this will have to do and could probably use some improvement. My shins are sitting fairly high on my boots. This is on purpose and secured with velcro. Without the velcro the shins would rotate out of place and either slide up or down. If I put the shins all the way down, what would be preferred, the gap around the knees would be too big and proportionally larger than the gap between the abdomen and the leg armor. In order to make everything look symmetrical I decided on the "shins ride high on the boots" option. The only thing I changed on the helmet was on the padding on the inside. I removed a layer of foam to bring the helmet down a little bit.

Name: Dorian Fritsch Future Garrison: Mountain Garrison, Denver CO, USA Armor Maker: RS Propmasters (kit) Helmet Maker: RS Propmasters (fully assembled) Cloth Maker: Under Armor (2 piece) Cloth Belt Maker: RS Propmasters Holster: Etsy ArtneoES Neck Seal: Trooperstore.com Boot Maker: Keep Trooping Blaster Maker: Imperial Arms (hasn't arrived yet) Gasket Maker: N/A Height: 6'2 Weight: 220lbs TK type: ANH Hero Pictures to follow when I figure out how to upload hi res pictures.

As I am finishing my armor (I am super excited; I will post pictures in the Pre-Approval thread hopefully soon) I am also wondering if there are ways to improve vision with the bubble lenses? Has anybody tried to play around with attaching lenses/glasses on the inside to neutralize the distortion caused by the bubble lenses? It would be nice to see things. The more I finish my armor and wear it the more I appreciate the actors and stuntmen in the movies who wore them.

I just received mine. Hopefully, my data points are not too late. If so, maybe others can benefit from them. Shoe sizes are always painful for me since I seem to have a different size with every manufacturer. Fortunately, I picked the right ones with KeepTrooping and they fit perfect. Ok, here we go: I am a European 44. In Adidas I can wear a snug US10 or loser 10.5. I am a 11M in Johnston and Murphy boots. 11 US in Brooks running shoes. 315mm in Technica ski boots. I ordered a 11US 45EU 421 and it fits perfect.They are very snug and maybe a little bit long. Meaning I could have probably gotten away with a 10.5US for length but there is no way a 10.5 would have fit me because they would have been to narrow. I think 1 size up if you use EU sizes is a good call. The US sizes seem pretty close to true fit but they are narrow. In general the shoes feel and look great. I am thinking of attaching velcro so the shin armor stays in place. I also need to put the shins higher than desired on the boots since I am 6.2 tall. If I slide the shins all the way down I create a big gap by the knees. I rather have the shins sit high (which is not that much noticeable since it is white over white) than the large black gap by the knees. Hope this helps. Good luck with the shoes.

Thank you very much! I just signed up and will go through the topics on what to do next and how to join. My shoes arrive tomorrow (and hopefully fit). With that I can complete my suit. I am happy to move forward. Thank you again.

Thanks guys! I appreciate all your help! I am using the same email I use here: [email protected]

All I see is the Banned screen. When I click on the LOGIN or SIGN UP on the homepage it directs me right back to the Banned screen. When I first started to try to join a couple months ago it would not let me sign up either. Back then I thought I had to be a member first to join the site. Interestingly, something similar happened to me on this (FISD) site. I had been trying to sign up many times and it would always say "You did not pass the security check (or question)". When I purposely put in a wrong answer it would say ("wrong answer to security question"). Only when I directly posted a question in a forum topic (Shoulder Bell Attachment) I was able to actually submit my request for membership. At some point I submitted a message to the Mountain Garrison via the "contact form" about how to contact the GML. But I did not get a response. I have no idea how these forums work or how they are run but maybe there is a glitch.

When I click on your link it says „BANNED - No permission“.

Thank you, Jim. That is actually my plan but I wanted to wait till I have my armor complete to the level I would like it to be. Or could I just submit now and keep working on it? I met a few of you guys, I guess, 2023 at DIA. That's when I started thinking it would be really fun to join you.

Hello, My name is Dorian, 52 Years old and I live in Colorado. I watched Star Wars when it first arrived in theaters in Germany. Since then I have been a big fan and the original trilogy was a huge part of my life growing up. I will never forget the day my friend and I walk into a comic book store in my hometown and they had a full life size Stormtrooper on display. It was for sale but of course well beyond our lunch money we had available. But from that day on my dream has always been to own my own suit. Well, only 40 Years later my dream came true. I stumbled upon this website researching how the armor should look like and where to buy it. That's when I realized my first mistake because I bought a full suit from stormtrooperstore.com. The armor didn't fit and didn't quite look right. My plan was to "fix it". The more research I did the more I realized I might as well buy a new kit. So, I order my TK ANH kit from RS Propmasters, watched all the videos (many times) and started working on my suit. After many months, I am almost done. I am still waiting on new shoes (keeptrooping.com) and I am on the lookout for a good blaster. Maybe a new neckseal as well. I am happy I landed in this forum. Thank you for accepting my membership request. Cheers! -Dorian

Awesome! Thank you for the tip. The new strap runs underneath the flaps of the neck seal. Which, by the way, I am not too happy with. I bought it from trooperstore.com. It is comfortable but lacks the rubbery, shiny look and the flaps mostly get in the way of other parts and stick out because it is so flimsy.

I have been experimenting and have some success with using an additional (2 inch) elastic strap that connects both shoulder bells (routed behind the neck). That additional strap pulls the bells inward, relieves the original straps and pulls everything back in place after any movement.

But Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford seem to have unlimited range of motion, especially in the trash compactor scene. It would have been very annoying (and expensive) to shoot the scenes if the armor would consistently fail. If we build the suits and the result is very limited range of motion I am wondering if we do it wrong.

Wouldn't we be able to see the strap on his left shoulder going underneath the shoulder bridge?

Great pictures! Is it possible they had different systems? I am still learning how to upload pictures (mine are too big). Once I know how to downsize my pictures I will upload the ones I am talking about. The reason why I am asking is because I am building my TK ANH suit (RS Propmasters) and I really want to get the shoulders right. If I use the elastic straps the shoulder bells will sag down and open up a gap. If I minimize the length of the elastic strap I lose range of motion to the point where I can't get the helmet on. If I lengthen the elastic strap the shoulders will sag down. I went through the movie frame by frame and there are a lot of action scenes where the shoulders are all over the place, yet they stay in position. This made me wonder if there is an alternate way to attach them which might have been used on the suits that were part of action shots (trash compacter scene, Stormtroopers on the floor or falling). Thank you for accepting me in this forum! There are a lot of great resources here. Any advice is highly appreciated.

Looking at the pictures (frame by frame) from ANH I begin to wonder if the shoulder bells were actually attached to the elastic straps underneath the shoulder bridges. In various frames the top of the shoulder bells do not line up with the position of the shoulder bridges where they would be attached. In a frame where Harrison Ford wears the the armor you can see clearly how there are no straps over the flaps from the neck seal. This makes me wonder if the shoulder bells were actually attached to the under suit or the flaps of the neck seal?